E.W. Cordingley, A.M., Ph.D.
In this chapter will be considered photo-therap [sic] (light therapy), chrome-therapy (color-therapy), and Rythmo-therapy (vibration). I characterize these methods as Quasi-Electrical Methods to differentiate them from the electrical modalities in which the actual current passes through a part of the body. These methods are electrical simply because electricity is the force usually used to generate the light or drive the motor in the appliances that are used for these methods. Of course, the light could be generated by gas, oil or some other combustible material, and there are vibrators on the market that are air-operated, but. the most common appliances are electrically operated, since electricity. is usually the most accessible and convenient generating power. I. PHOTO-THERAPY While attending a post-graduate course in Chicago several years …
When, after the brief space of a few months, I found that a second edition of “Principles and Practice of Naturopathy” was called for, I realized very forcibly that this little book has been accorded one of the most favored receptions of any book ever written on drugless therapeutics. Not only have Naturopaths bought it in large quantities, but practitioners of other systems, both drug and drugless, have read it and recommended it to their friends. Laymen, likewise, have put its teachings into practice and have reported’ great success in treating members of their families when unfortunately overtaken by disease. I believe this book has filled an evident need. Much has been said and written about Naturopathy; Naturopathic practitioners have come muchinto prominence within the …
There is a considerable variety of electrical treatment appliances on the market, which deliver over a dozen different forms of currents, or modalities, to use the technical term. Thus, we have the galvanic, faradic, slow, rapid and surging sinusoidal, high frequency violet ray, diathermy, and auto-condensation, which are the ones most commonly used. We have already dealt with the use of the sinusoidal and faradic currents in spondlylotherapy, and many practitioneers [sic] prefer these currents to concussion for eliciting’ the vertebral reflexes. The sinusoidal current is known as an induced current, and in case of the rapid sinusoidal, is similar in some respects to the faradic, which latter is generated by magnetism in an induction coil, but differs from the faradic in that the voltage …
For the sake of standardizing the practice of Naturopathy and expediting the handling of a considerable practice with the best results and at the same time with the least expenditure of energy, which becomes an important factor where a large practice is handled, I am hereby presenting an outline of what I consider an excellent “basic treatment” to be given to the majority of patients. This “basic treatment” will be applicable to a large percentage of disorders, and, of course, other measures; can also be used as an individual case may require. This is my suggestion of such a routine “basic treatment”: 1st. The Collins’ General Naturopathic Tonic Treatment. 2nd. Naturopathic Correction of Specific Lesions. 3rd. Spondylotherapy. To obviate too frequent turning of the ,patient …
As, in its final analysis, all disease is the result of morbid encumbrances in the system, due to wrong habits of eating, sleeping, working, amusement, heredity, etc., the ultimate result of all treatment is the freeing of the body of such encumbrances. Mechanical treatments may speed up nerve force and thereby increase the function of an organ (the kidneys or liver as an example), but this speeding-up really results in normalizing the circulation and ridding the body of morbid wastes. As a good general introductory treatment that is applicable to practically every case. I will first present the celebrated Collins General Naturopathic Tonic Treatment. Dr. F. W. Collins of Newark, N.J., Dean of the United States School of Naturopathy, personally gave me permission to include …
Dietetics is a subject that has been much abused, and many Naturopaths have been confused with the conflicting theories of “food faddists.” For that reason, we want to keep this chapter free from faddism. and instead present only such fundamental principles as are approved by science as the result of impartial investigation and resaearch [sic]. One matter that should never be overlooked in regards to the prescribing- of diet is that a dietetic regime that works out excellently with one person will not agree at all with another. There are great variations in individuals. and there is more than a grain of truth in the old adage that “what is one man’s food is another man’s poison.” At the outset, We have two well-defined temperaments …
For the purposes of convenience we will divide Naturopathy into the mechanical, material, and psychological, in accordance with the plan of Dr. Louis Blumer, the able Naturopathic pioneer of New England, and we will designate each of these by the terms, Mechanical Naturopathy, Material Naturopathy, and Psychological Naturapathy. MECHANICAL NATUROPATHY will include all manual methods of overcoming lesions of bones, ligaments, muscles and other structures. We will not designate these methods as osteopathy, chiropractic, naprapathy, mechano-therapy, etc., as we consider such terms arbitray [sic]. What is now known us osteopathy was really practiced two hundred years before the name osteopathy was known in parts of Scandinavia; what are now called chiropractic and napropathy were practiced a hundred and fifty years before these names were heard …
As we review the history of the healing art, we find that mankind has constantly delved into methods of eradicating human disorders that lead away from unnatural drugging, and tend toward Nature. The theories that have been advanced regarding the cause of disease are legion. Wrong chemical combinations, germs, impingement of nerves, wrong habits of eating, faculty mental states, and a host of others have each been held responsible as the sole cause of disease by a host of enthusiastic disciples. However, after all is said and done, it must be admitted by any fair investigator that each single system has its shortcomings. Each method will accomplish some good, but no single method is infallible. For this reason the more intelligent among those who are …
Hydrotherapy, Hydropathy, Hydriatic Treatment, or the Water Cure, as it is variously called, has been successfully used in nearly all diseases to which human flesh is heir. The treat popularity of Turkish Baths, and Mineral Springs, for rheumatism is well known, an.) the fact that a host of other disorders can he overcome by water applications should be self-evident to any Naturopath, because the chief effect of them is an eliminative one, and, since the Naturopath appreciates the fact that disease, in its final analysis, is retention of morbid wastes, he can readily see that any means that will cause an elimination of such accumulations will effect a cure. The action on the body of many Mineral Springs is not understood by the laity, Many …
When there are lesions in the spine, between the ribs, pelvic bones, or at other joints, it is desirable that they be corrected. If it is found that a spinal segment is sore and inflamed you should examine with the fingers around the spinous and transverse processes of that vertebra and compare its position with the vertebra above and the vertebra below it, to detect any mal-alignment. Then, by grasping the tip firmly between the thumb and forefinger, try to detect in which direction the movement is limited on account of contracted ligaments and muscles. When you have made the determination, you should place either your thumb or the pisiform bone of your wrist against either the spinous or transverse process of the vertebra, and …
